26 Tne NTAURAL HISTORY 
{eales, and the foates reach two ‘nchies above the 
knees, where there -are no feathers; the head, the | 
throat, and upper part of the neck, are covered 
swith a fhort down, ver. ery clofe, and foft to the 
touch. 
The Agami is remarkable for a very wai noife, 
which does not feem to come from the beak: 
indeed he firft makes a noife from his bill, like the 
word fcherck, two or three times repeated ;' this 
4s followed by a ftrange noife from within, not 
much unlike the cooing of a pigeon, or as if 
one faid tou, fix or feven times, with the mouth © 
fhut, drawing out the laft tou for fome time, 
and lowering the note. It is a little like the 
~-noife which the Dutch bakers make ina glafs, 
to tell their cuftomers that they are aa their 
bread out of the oven. - a 
But there is reafon to fuppofe, that this ntl | 
does come from the beak very flight] y opened 5 | 
though there are inftances in birds of noifes that 
come from within, and are heard through the 
_fkin, whilft the beak is fhut, as the cooing: of 
Doves and the cry of the Hoceo, : 
When they are properly attended to, in a tame : 
flate, they keep themfelves very neat: they often 
fmooth the feathers of their wings and of their 
_ bodies with their beaks, — Sometimes, when they 
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